“The ginkgo tree is from the era of dinosaurs, but while the dinosaur has been extinguished, the modern ginkgo has not changed. After the atomic bomb in Hiroshima, the ginkgo was the first tree that ...

This undated photo shows a ginkgo leaf in New Paltz, NY. In addition to their fan shape, leaves of ginkgo trees have a unique venation pattern indicating its origin of this genus millions of years ago ...

Ginkgo biloba, the sole survivor of the ancient Ginkgoales family, has roots stretching back an astounding 270 million years.

Chinese pistachio (Pistacia chinense) joins ginkgo and tallow tree in a noteworthy group of deciduous species indigenous to ...

Ginkgo trees are either male or female, and they reproduce when a sperm from a male tree, carried by grains of pollen floating on the wind, connects with a seed on a female tree and fertilizes it, not ...

Steve Nix is a member of the Society of American Foresters and a former forest resources analyst for the state of Alabama. Our present-day "living fossil tree" is nearly identical to leaves found in ...

These ancient trees persisted for nearly 200 million years until they all but vanished. Now they line city streets. Tourists visit a 1000-year-old ginkgo tree in China's Sichuan province. During the ...